Brain stimulation during an afternoon nap boosts slow oscillatory activity and memory consolidation in older adults

NeuroImage

Volumn 142, Issue , 2016, Pages 311-323

  Ladenbauer, Julia ^a   Külzow, Nadine ^a   Passmann, Sven ^a   Antonenko, Daria ^a   Grittner, Ulrike ^a   Tamm, Sascha ^b   Flöel, Agnes ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Declarative memory; Sleep; Sleep spindles; Slow oscillations; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SOMNOLENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL SLOW OSCILLATORY STIMULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; AGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECALL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN WAVES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84994043948     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.057     Document Type: Article

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